Dish-cleaner



UNITE VALTER A. ADAMS, HOGAN, MONTANA.

DISH-CLEANER.

SPECIFICATION forming` part of Letters Patent N0. 502,159, dated. July 25, 1,893.

Application tiled September 13, 1892. Serial No. 445.769. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WALTER A. ADAMS, of Hogan, in the county of Lewis and Clarke, State of Montana, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Dish-Washing Machines, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to an improvement in dish-washing machines, and has for its object to provide a dish-washer which will be exceedingly simple, durable and economic in construction, and capable of being operated in an effective and convenient manner.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar iigures and letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of one portion of the washer. Fig. 2 is a vertical section taken through the complete washer, the cover being illustrated as applied. Fig. 3 is a plan view` of that portion of the washer shown in Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a bottom plan `View of the inner section of the washer; and Fig. 5 is a vertical section through a tray used in connection therewith, and which may-also be utilized as a cover. Y

The dish washer may be said to consist practically of two parts, an outer receptacle A, adapted to contain water', and an inner receptacle B, adapted to receive dishes. The outer receptacle A, may be shaped as an ordinary dish-pan, or it may be given any other desired shape. In the drawings the outer receptacle is illust-rated as being round at top and bottom and as having straight sides, the sides being provided eXteriorly with handles 10.

The outer receptacle may be made of any desired material, tin or sheet metal being preferably employed for the purpose. The inner receptacle is given substantially the same shape as the outer receptacle; but the inner or dish-receiving receptacle is constructed as ymuch as possible from wire, either plaited or in woven form; or if in practice it is found desirable the inner receptacle may be made upon the outer one.

from perforated sheet metal, in which event the perforations are grouped as closely as possible along the sides and at the bottom, the top of the inner dish-receiving receptacle being open.

The dish-receiving receptacle is of less diameter than the outer receptacle A, as shown in Fig. 2; and the dish-receiving receptacle is also provided with upwardly-extending handles 1l, ordinarily located at opposite sides, and upon its bottom a ring-like plate l2, or the equivalent thereof, is secured, the plate or ring being located between the center and the periphery about mid-way. The ring or plate carries aseries of friction rollers 13, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, and these friction rollers, when the dish-receiving receptacle is contained within the'outer or water receptacle, travel upon a circular track 14, secured to or formed upon the inner face of the bottom of the said outer or water-receiving receptacle. When not in use the outer receptacle may be closed by means of a cover 15; this cover is adapted to iit loosely over the top of the outer receptacle, and comprises a top` plate 16 and a flange 17, formed at or near the margin of the plate.

The top 15 may be, and in the operation of the machine is utilized as a tray, and the operation is as follows: Water, with a suitable cleansing compound, such as soap, for example, isA placed in the receptacle A, after the dish-receiving receptacle has been removed therefrom. The dishes are then stacked in the inner reticulated or perforated receptacle B, and said receptacle is thereupon placed in the water contained in the outer receptacle in such a manner as to cause the wheels upon the'inner receptacle to engage with the track By means of the handles 1l, the inner receptacle maybe revolved as rapidly as possible in the cleansing compound, and when the dishes have been sufficiently washed the inner receptacle is removed and either the cleansing compound is removed from the outer receptacle A and fresh Water placed therein, or a second outer receptacle A, is employed containing pure water. Inany event, after the dishes have been subjected to the action of the cleansing compound contained in the washing receptacle they are placed in an outer receptacle A, containing The herein described dishwasher, consisting of the outer receptacle A provided with the circular track 14 in its bottorn,'a,nd an inner reticulated or perforated receptacle B having handles l1 and provided with L ring like plate on the under side of its bottom and with rollers 13 secured to seid plate and adapted to travel upon the track. of the outer receptacle,

as specified.

WALTER A. ADAMS. Witnesses:

JOHN TH. MCGILARA, ALICE LINGEN BURTON. 

